Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
by sidewndr46 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:23PM
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One of the worst innovations they've introduced is returning results for things you did not search for. At this point, potentially anything is a valid search result for any search query.
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
by ignite on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:11PM
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Google has gotten notably worse in the last few months. I keep getting the feeling it is serving results for a query similar to what I entered, but more popular. It drowns out any results that actually might answer my questions.
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
by qrio2 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:13PM
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god, the quoted text suggestion thing is really the nail in the coffin. Used to feel like a wizard showing people how to get exact search results, now... well, that's why we're having this discussion
Today:
* Any term that might be related to a commercial product? That product comes first and frequently only.
* Search for two terms? It will first give it's prefer result for each separately - usually commercial products (ha). And then might give them together.
* Quoted terms are often taken as vague suggestions. Negative sign is often useless, etc.